Unbeknownst to average college boy Joe Talbot (Josh Charles), he holds the secret to dimensional travel in the form of a crystal pendant left by his father. But when beautiful resistance fighter Laura (Andrea Roth) turns up in Joe's dorm one night, he's drawn into a battle to rescue Earth from intergalactic raiders. Rutger Hauer co-stars as the soldier of fortune who teams with Joe and Laura to waylay invading warlord Ferris (Stuart Wilson).